Albany Academy for Girls students take part in annual theater tradition

Eighth-Grade students at Albany Academy for Girls took part in a 50-year tradition Thursday, Jan. 13, as they presented the annual AAG Eighth Grade Play in front of Academies families in the AAG Auditorium.

Albany Academy for Girls students performed an adaptation of well-known British author Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories.” (Albany Academy for Girls)

The girls performed an adaptation of well-known British author Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories.” These stories are among Kipling’s best-known works and have a typical theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being.

Each January, eighth-grade students at AAG take part in a special tradition as they spend two full weeks completely immersed in a performing arts experience — taking complete control of a play and performing their own take on it for Academies families and Lower School students.

The girls were completely responsible for the production of the play, designing their own sets, props and costumes; adapting their own scripts; assigning and learning their roles; and presenting the play at the end of the two-week period.